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gritty ware, while all were either undecorated, cord-marked, basket-marked, or 

 stamped with the well-known square impression. To the best of our knowledge, 

 none bore any variety of the complicated stamped decoration present in the low 

 neighboring mounds. 



In various parts of the mound were pebbles of different sizes, and from the 

 midden refuse of the base, unassociated, came a bone pin with incised decoration 

 around the head. A disc of earthenware, irregularly circular, with a diameter of 

 about 3.5 inches and a thickness of .5 of 1 inch, lay by itself 7 feet from the surface. 

 This disc had been fashioned and baked and not cut from part of a vessel as were 

 certain earthenware discs present in other mounds of the coast. Though, owing to 

 the considerable quantity of oyster shells in the mound, one might have looked for 

 human remains in a fairly good state of preservation, their condition was not such 

 as to warrant their removal, the crania in particular being decayed and crushed. 

 No fractures were noticed in the bones or any pathological condition of importance. 

 We shall now proceed to a detailed description of certain features present in 

 the mound and of the interments. Unless otherwise stated, depths of skeletons 

 are given from the surface to the uppermost portion of the skeleton, a measurement 

 of which we disapprove, preferring the vertical distance to the plane upon which 

 the remains were deposited, a method which we have followed in most of our other 

 descriptions in this Report. 



1. — 34 feet E. from center, 6 inches from the surface, in the shell debris, which 

 at that part covered the slope of the mound to a considerable depth, were the skull 

 of an adult, part of a clavicle, and portions of a pelvis and of a humerus. 



2. — 24 feet E. by S., just below the surface, in the shell, were a portion of a 

 femur and two fragments of smaller long bones. With these was a bit of chert, 

 while near by, though perhaps having no con- 

 nection with them, lay a tobacco pipe of soap- 

 stone, absolutely intact, still bearing marks of 

 the maker's tools (Fig. 58). 



3. — 18 feet W. of S., bunched burial of adult 

 male, 22 inches from the surface. 



4. — 1.5 feet W. of No. 3, bunched burial of 

 adult male, 3.5 feet down. 



5. — 35 feet E. by N., 3.5 feet down, just 

 beneath the marginal shell layer, were a frag- 

 ment of scapula and six phalanges scattered over 

 a small area. The mound had suffered no dis- 

 turbance at this point, 



6. — 24 feet S. E., a grave dug through the 

 superficial shell layer into the yellow sand of 

 of the field at a point where the upward slope 

 had just begun. From the surface of the shell 

 layer to the bottom of the grave-pit was 4 feet. The pit proper, whose depth was 



Fig. 58.— Tobacco pipe of soapstoue. 

 B. (Full size.) 



